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- Louis Menand wrote in his long review in The New Yorker, "What Hallberg is after is an atmosphere, and he gets it." On the other hand, Elisabeth Vincentelli of the New York Post called it "overhyped" and "a steaming pile of literary dung".
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Oct 5, 2015 · Slips are minimal. (The tag of the pioneer graffiti artist Taki was Taki 183, not Taki 8, for instance.) But “City on Fire” is not overstuffed with period detail.
- Louis Menand
City on Fire received a mixed reception from critics. The novel received praise from Megan O'Grady in Vogue, who called it "the kind of exuberant, Zeitgeisty New York novel, like The Bonfire of the Vanities or The Goldfinch, that you'll either love, hate, or pretend to have read".
- Garth Risk Hallberg
- 2015
Oct 13, 2015 · New York Times Bestseller. Rough-edged mid-1970s New York provides the backdrop for an epic panorama of musicians, writers, and power brokers and the surprising ways they connect.
- Kirkus Reviews
May 11, 2023 · The 2015 novel City On Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg was hailed in some circles as the next Great American Novel, but others thought it was overrated. But its intersecting stories and 1977...
Oct 21, 2015 · October 21, 2015. The thousand pages took seven years to write. Ten publishing houses competed in an auction for the final product, with the highest bid reportedly being close to $2 million dollars...
City on Fire is intricately plotted and overstuffed with side-plots and digressions. Nevertheless, this is not a confusing book. Hallberg structures the novel into seven chapters, interspersed with six interludes.
Oct 24, 2015 · City on Fire gets much more right about punk rock than the vastly overrated A Visit from the Goon Squad ever did. City on Fire also proffers a heady mix of discourses. Each chapter bears at least one different epigraph, taken from sources ranging from poetry and fiction to journalism and song lyrics.
